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Revision as of 22:16, 17 July 2016

Tutorial
Topic
Import text and geometry from Inkscape
Level
Beginner
Time to complete
30 minutes
Authors
r-frank
FreeCAD version
0.16.6704
Example files
See also
None

Introduction

This tutorial is supposed to show how to import text or geometry created with inkscape via svg-format into FreeCAD.
Inkscape 0.91 and FreeCAD 0.16.6704 on Windows are used for these operations.

General tipps for importing from inkscape

  • the svg-import in FreeCAD cannot handle a svg file with a resolution of more than 45 dpi, so check the settings in inkscape
  • when importing path objects which show up in the 3D view in FreeCAD not very smooth it may be a matter of the FreeCAD-settings for the shape view.
    • in FreeCAD choose Edit Preferences Part Design Shape View
    • as for "Tesselation", the "Maximum deviation depending on the model bounding box" the default value is "0,5 %"
    • setting this to a lower value will increase smoothness of the model in the 3D view (and use more PC performance)
    • don't use values lower than "0,01 %", this will most likely crash FreeCAD
    • in that case deleting "system.cfg" and "user.cfg" in your FreeCAD-user-directory will solve this problem

Importing text from Inkscape

Importing geometry from Inkscape

Credits